I am a Computer Science PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, working on various projects related to the governance of data, AI, and connected devices (see academic projects).
I combine methods and perspectives from computer science, law, design, and governance.
Currently focusing on:
I hold Bachelor's degrees in both Law and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam, and an MPhil (Master’s) in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge.
Alongside my research, I work at a tech advisory firm. I provide legal and ethical advice for various (EU) projects, which keeps me on my toes with the EU’s tech/data regulations.
Finally, I volunteer as advisor on data governance for Hanah Ecosystem.
I believe it’s important to bring research into real-world practice, which is why I love working with practitioners.
Please reach out for collaborations, talks, or guidance!
Notes
Workshops & Talks
Future
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Paper presentation at ACM FAccT conference. Read more
June 2026
Past
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On AI procurement
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May 2026 - Talk for the AI procurement Community of Interest, together with Emma Kallina
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April 2026 - Paper presentation at ACM CHI in Barcelona, together with Emma Kallina. Read more
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April 2026 - Participatory data governance is a broad field of study concerned with institutions and mechanisms which involve communities in decisions about and use of data. Within this broader field, structural approaches to participatory data governance—such as data trusts, cooperatives, and other intermediaries—are gaining in prominence among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. However, most existing work emphasizes the legal and structural design of these models, and overlooks the most crucial factor to these initiatives’ success: the participatory methods through which affected communities are meaningfully engaged and empowered to shape data use. This workshop introduces the CHI community to this emerging field. By connecting established HCI expertise in areas such as transparency, accountability, co-design, and governance to the socio-legal frameworks and growing practice of participatory data intermediaries, the workshop seeks to build a sustained research agenda towards concrete methods for participatory governance in diverse contexts. In doing so, we aim to accelerate the adoption of participatory models of data governance.
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Feb/March 2026 - I have been organising and hosting a series of 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 with research institutions in a responsible and trustworthy way.
In the workshops, we brought together different stakeholders to discuss how we make women's health data available in a responsible way. We talked about when sharing women’s health data is valuable, when it is not, and under what conditions people are willing to share their data.
Participants:
- Representatives of women’s health apps
- Users of women’s health apps
- Medical research institutions (universities, public research institutions)
- Clinicians and hospitals
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December 2025 - Workshop on AI Governance in Public Procurement
Emma Kallina, Heleen Janssen and I were hosting this workshop in collaboration with VNG (Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten). Together with municipalities, we will evaluated our recent University of Cambridge research results / recommendations on how to use public procurement for AI governance (in the UK/EU). The goal is to tailor our research insights to the actual needs of public sector practitioners.More info here
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July ‘25 - Guest Lecture about AI, Sensor Networks, and Ethics in Urban Environments at the MSt in Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment. This is a Master’s course at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
This annual lecture is part of a workshop series for professionals (also delivered in 2024 and scheduled for 2026).
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June ‘25 - Rights Out of Sight: Data Practices and Transparency Gaps in Smart Consumer IoT Ecosystems
“By empirically exposing the nature of data transmissions and the failure of vendors to meet transparency obligations, this paper reveals a troubling status quo: smart product users have minimal agency over their data, while vendors operate with little to no accountability. ”
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency · 23 jun. 2025.
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June ‘25 - I supported Dimitra Kamarinou in preparing and hosting a workshop about privacy issues related to the use of women’s health data for research. This is part of the Conference on AI Research for Women’s Health.
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May ‘25 - Fertility tracking apps and devices are widely used to support reproductive health, but what actually happens to the sensitive data they collect? This talk presents research into how these technologies handle intimate information, such as cycle data, mood, and sexual activity, and where that data goes. I explore the nature and destinations of data transmissions, as well as how users perceive these practices.
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May ‘25 - ReEvaluate is a European Project on digitisation and management of cultural heritage, supported by AI. On behalf of ARTHUR, I provided a workshop on a Data Monitoring Tool that we developed.
More about ReEvaluate: https://reevaluate.eu/
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April ‘25 - Intimate Data Sharing: Enhancing Transparency and Control in Fertility Tracking
“Our study deepens understandings of fertility tracker data sharing and presents co-created mechanisms to enhance user agency over their data in intimate contexts.”
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 26 apr. 2025
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April ‘25 - I presented a short paper outlining a research agenda for Public Procurement as an enforcement mechanism for responsible AI. This was a contribution to a workshop on Participatory AI Design in Public Sector Innovation.
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April ‘25 I contributed with a short paper to the workshop Body Politics: Unpacking Tensions and Future Perspectives for Body-Centric Design Research in Human-Computer Interaction.
My paper revolved around the following questions (excerpt): “What forms of agency are made possible, or foreclosed, when intimate data is silently repurposed? What happens when the reproductive body is made hyper-visible to infrastructures of surveillance and profit? How can we centre bodily autonomy and lived experience in the design of accountability mechanisms?”
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October ‘24 - I gave a talk and joined a panel discussion about the Unintended Consequences of Artificial Intelligence at the Major Projects Association‘s conference, themed: ‘The answer is AI, now what’s the question?’
I was quoted in the event summary report:
“It is very important to start by asking, ‘What kind of problem am I going to solve?’ and then, ‘What are the different approaches to solving this problem?’ while also considering the costs and benefits of each approach, including unintended consequences. In that case, when thinking about using AI, it's not a binary decision. It’s not just about whether to use AI or not, but really about how you are going to organise its implementation and use.” -
April ‘24 - TwinERGY offers a platform for citizens and communities to ‘prosume’ energy by empowering them to track their energy use and to proactively participate in the market. As Strategy Counsel at ARTHUR, I presented about a report I co-authored regarding legal and ethics considerations relating to smart meters and data sharing.
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June ‘23 - Data rights in the consumer Internet of Things
“This paper describes some outcomes from multidisciplinary work that attempted to shed light on IoT processing practices through the technical monitoring of IoT device transmissions, and using rights under data protection law.”
A. I. Hudig, C. Norval and J. Singh, "Data rights in the consumer Internet of Things," International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023), Venice, Italy, 2023, pp. 25-30, doi: 10.1049/icp.2023.2560.
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June ‘23 - The UNSW Allens Hub is an academic community for technological change, law, and legal practice. For an audience of researchers and professionals, I highlighted the key insights from our Internet-of-Things study and what that means for individuals whose data is being collected by these devices, as well as for a broader range of stakeholders.
Watch back: https://allenshub.unsw.edu.au/events/transparency-consumer-internet-things
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June ‘23 - I spoke with Frits Bussemaker about my research project on the Internet of Things. We discussed transparency in data transmission from smart devices and why this is important for accountability in the digital environment.
Watch back: https://i4ada.org/dialogues/anna-ida-hudig-university-of-cambridge/
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May ‘23 - What happens with our data in the Internet of Things? Conference for female computer science researchers in Oxford and Cambridge
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March ‘23 - BeOpen developed an Open framework for boosting EU High Value Datasets from the Public Sector. As Strategy Counsel at ARTHUR, I co-authored a trust framework and designed a hands-on tool for operationalising trust principles in the public sector using technical components.
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May ‘22 - AgriCaptureCO2 is developed an approach to measure carbon capture in soil using soil and satellite data to promote regenerative agriculture.
As Strategy Counsel at ARTHUR, I gave a workshop on mechanisms for trusted data sharing within the projects.
Academic Projects
Publications
Hudig, A.I. and Singh, J. 2026. Transparency and Digital Governance: How Oversight Bodies Access Information, What Hinders Them, and How They Respond. In The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’26), June 25–28, 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3806741
Hudig, A.I.*, Kallina, E.M.*, & Singh, J. (2026). “It’s Just a Wild, Wild West”: Harnessing Public Procurement as an AI Governance Mechanism. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791968.
Hudig, A.I., Mandalari, A.M., Norval, C., Haddadi, H., Binns, R., & Singh, J. (2025). Rights Out of Sight: Data Practices and Transparency Gaps in Smart Consumer IoT Ecosystems. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '25), Athens, Greece, https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732154.
Hudig, A.I. & Singh, J. (2025). Intimate Data Sharing: Enhancing Transparency and Control in Fertility Tracking, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), Yokohama, Japan, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714089.
Hudig, A.I., Norval, C., & Singh, J. (2023). Data Rights in the Consumer Internet of Things, International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE ‘23), Venice, Italy, pp. 25-30, doi:10.1049/icp.2023.2560.
Hudig, A.I., Norval, C., & Singh, J. (2023). Transparency in the Consumer Internet of Things: Data Rights and Data Flows [Research Report]. This project was funded by a grant from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The report can be found here: https://iot-transparency.org.
Contributions
Powar, J., Marlene Kallina, E., Hudig, A.I., Singh, J., Kyi, L., Janssen, H., ... & Zhang, R. (2026). Participatory Data Governance in Practice. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26) (pp. 1-6).
Van der Wees, A., Hudig, A.I., & Prins, C. (2021). AI That Works: The Symbiosis of Functionals & Non-Functionals as Main Success Factor [book chapter]. Trusted Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: A Review of the Emerging Wave of Ethical and Human Centric AI Technologies for Smart Production.
Teaching
Supervisor of undergraduate computer science students in Interaction Design and in Economics, Law and Ethics at the University of Cambridge.
Guest lecturer at the MSt Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) [yearly lectures: 2024, 2025, 2026].
Guest Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam Bachelor of Law, about Digitisation
Selected Professional Projects
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FLYVE is the strategic partner of PAL-V for societal and professional applications of FlyDrive vehicles (= flying cars). FLYVE investigates potential professional and socially beneficial use cases for the vehicle in cooperation with countries, government departments, regions, cities, and communities.
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REEVALUATE is a Horizon Europe project that supports the cultural heritage sector in digitising their collections, using AI for contextualisation. On behalf of ARTHUR, I developed a Data Management Tool for knowledge sharing and quarterly reviews on data management and AI ethics.
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BeOpen is a Horizon Europe Project that developed an open data framework for boosting EU High Value Datasets from the Public Sector. In my capacity as Strategy Counsel at ARTHUR, I developed a Trust Framework Report on Legal interoperability, ethics, and trust components for High Value Datasets in the public sector. I also developed and presented a hands-on Trust Framework Tool for the public sector to help select technical components underpinning certain trust principles.
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AgriCaptureCO2 combines soil data, satellite data and dashboards to measure the impact of regenerative agriculture methods on soil carbon levels as verification method for carbon credit certificates. On behalf of ARTHUR, I have written a report ‘Ethical and Legal Requirements: an identification of the relevant ethical and legal frameworks related to the AgriCapture project and platform’. I presented the findings in an interactive workshop at a project meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.
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TwinERGY built a platform for citizens and communities to ‘prosume’ energy by empowering them to track their energy use and to proactively participate in the market.
As Strategy Counsel at ARTHUR, I co-authored a Legal & Ethical Compliance Guide: an identification of legal and ethical requirements relevant to the TwinERGY project and pilots. I presented these findings at project meetings in Bristol and Barcelona.
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STAR is a Horizon Europe project about Safe and Trusted Human Centric Artificial Intelligence in Future Manufacturing Lines. I have provided legal and ethics advice. Also co-authored a Book Chapter:
Van der Wees, A., Hudig, H.A.I. & Prins, C. (22 November 2021). AI That Works: The Symbiosis of Functionals & Non-Functionals as Main Success Factor in Trusted Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing. In: A Review of the Emerging Wave of Ethical and Human Centric AI Technologies for Smart Production. Edited by John Soldatos and Dimosthenis Kyriazis. pp. 191–210. Now Publishers.
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In 2018-2019, I led a project on using a distributed ledger (blockchain) based strategy to capture and trace carbon emissions in international shipping, in collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam. This resulted in world’s first marine fuel transaction using blockchain!
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From 2016 till 2018, I have been advising public and semi-public organisations on how to effectively procure low-emission (GHG/local) transport modalities or fuels. This was a part-time job I did during my studies and which I loved.
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For a research internship at ABN AMRO (a Dutch bank), I developed, tested, and evaluated a Bitcoin Data Representation that can be used as input for machine learning (K-prototype clustering) to predict which Bitcoin addresses likely belong to the same entity, based on transaction patterns.
Hanah provides state-of-the-art infrastructure for secure data collaboration between femtech apps, health platforms and medical institutions.
My role: lead data governance
Education
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How digital systems can be designed and governed to prioritise transparency and accountability. Perspectives from technology, law, and society.
See Academic Projects for details.
Compliant and Accountable Systems Group, Department of Computer Science . -
Graduated with distinction
Dissertation: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence - Case Studies on User-Centric Data Business Models for Development in Low-Income Countries (See Academic Projects for detail).
Courses: Driving Change Towards Sustainability - Sustainability Methods and Metrics - International Development - Policy, Legislation and Governance - Electricity and the Environment - Energy, Development and Rural Livelihoods - Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design - Resilience and Hazard Mitigation in Future Cities - Negotiation Skills - Client Consultancy Project -
The BSc Future Planet Studies is an interdisciplinary course on complex future challenges. I specialised in the Major Artificial Intelligence.
Courses: Logic - Linear Algebra - Calculus and Statistics - Logic Programming and Search Methods (Prolog) - Object Oriented Programming (Java) - Machine Learning (Python) - Decision Making (Python) - Data Structures and Algorithms (C) - Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.
Thesis - Identifying Bitcoin Owners: an Evaluation of a Transaction Based Bitcoin Data Representation as Input for Unsupervised Address Clustering written at ABN AMRO (a Dutch Bank). -
Thesis - CO2 at Sea: State Responsibility for Carbon Emissions in International Shipping (graded 9.5/10).
Author of a range of articles on the intersections of law and technology, and law and sustainability.
Besides the degrees listed here, I’ve taken a few side paths:
Winter School in Cultural Heritage (KNIR) in Rome
Summer School in Development in the International Political Economy at London School of Economics
Permaculture Course in Kibbutz Lotan
Doctoral Training School in Surveillance Studies, Colchester, UK
I also took courses in Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Space and Time.
Get in touch
Please reach out for collaborations, questions, workshops, talks etc.
Anna Ida Hudig
P.S.
The images on this website are my own, mostly taken during my travels. If interested, check out more of my photography here: